(Click on Paper Titles to download pdf files of each paper)
Thursday, July 29 | Friday, July 30 | Saturday, July 31 | Sunday, August 1
Tutorial schedule | Talks + Symposium schedule | Poster schedule
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Session |
Time |
Title |
Location |
| Doctoral Consortium | 9:00 - 17:00 | DC Student Abstracts | LRDC 814 |
| Tutorial 1 | 9:15-12:30 | Development of Cognitive Agents Using the COGNET Architecture and iGEN Toolset --- Wayne Zachary and Michael Szczepkowski | LRDC 514 |
| Tutorial 2 | 14:00-17:15 | CHREST, a Tool for Teaching Cognitive Modeling --- Fernand Gobet and Peter Lane | LRDC 514 |
| Tutorial 3 | 9:15-17:15 | Building Cognitive Models with the EPIC Architecture for Human Cognition and Performance --- David Kieras & Anthony Hornof | LRDC 1st floor conference room |
| Tutorial 4 | 9:15-17:15 | A Hands-on Tutorial for Building Agent Models in Soar --- John Laird | LRDC 9th floor |
| Free show | 20:00-21:20 | Judy -or- What Is It Like To Be A Robot? by Tom Sgouros | CMU McConomy Auditorium, (First floor of the University Center) |
All regular talks, plenaries, and symposia will take place in the Giant Eagle Auditorium of Baker Hall at CMU. The location of other events are noted in the schedule.
All regular talks will be 15 minutes long, with 4 minutes for questions and 1 minute for transition to the next talk.
| Friday
July 30th |
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| Session |
Time |
Title |
Authors |
| Registration | 8:00 | Registration in the foyer of the Giant Eagle Auditorium | |
| Opening Comments & Announcements | 8:45 | ||
| Plenary Speaker | 9:00 | Cognitive Simulation in the Large | Ken Forbus |
| Break | 10:15 | ||
| Learning + Memory | 10:30 | Episodic versus Semantic Memory: An Exploration of Models of Memory Decay in the Serial Attention Paradigm | Chris Sims, Wayne Gray |
| 10:50 | Dimension-Wide vs. Exemplar-Specific Attention in Category Learning and Recognition | Yasuaki Sakamoto, Toshihiko Matsuka, Bradley Love | |
| 11:10 | A Cognitive Model of Episodic Memory Integrated with a General Cognitive Architecture | Andrew Nuxoll, John Laird | |
| Attention | 11:30 | A Connexionist Model of the Attentional Blink Effect During a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task | Sylvain Chartier, Denis Cousineau, Dominic Charbonneau |
| 11:50 | Toward an ACT-R General Executive for Human Multitasking | Dario Salvucci, Yelena Kushleyeva, Frank Lee | |
| 12:10 | Modelling performance in the Sustained Attention to Response Task | David Peebles, Daniel Bothell | |
| Lunch | 12:30 | Spatial cognition: Navigating CMU dining facilities |
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| Symposium 1 | 14:00 | Models of eye-tracking in reading | Erik Reichle, Ronan Reilly, Eike Richter, Shun-Nan Yang |
| reak | 15:30 | ||
| Basic Choice | 15:45 | Towards a Theory of Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Probabilistic Environments | Stefani Nellen, Marsha Lovett |
| 16:05 | Learning to Choose the Most Effective Strategy: Explorations in Expected Value | Wayne Gray, Michael Schoelles, Chris Sims | |
| 16:25 | Soar-RL: Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Soar | Shelley Nason, John Laird | |
| Decision Making | 16:45 | Streak Biases in Decision Making: Data and a Memory Model | Erik Altmann, Bruce Burns |
| 17:05 | Learning to Make Decisions in Dynamic Environments: ACT-R Plays the Beer Game | Cleotilde Gonzalez | |
| 17:25 | Letter Spirit: A Model of Visual Creativity | John Rehling, Douglas Hofstadter | |
| Break | 17:45 | ||
| Shuttles to Banquet | 18:30 | Leave from CMU Baker Hall and Holiday Inn hotel | |
| Banquet | 19:00 | at Dave & Buster's | |
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Session |
Start |
Title |
Speaker |
| Perception | 9:00 | Explaining Eye Movements in the Visual Search of Varying Density Layouts | Tim Halverson, Anthony Hornof |
| 9:20 | Good enough but I'll just check: Web-page search as attentional refocusing | Duncan Brumby, Andrew Howes | |
| 9:40 | Time perception: beyond simple interval estimation | Niels Taatgen, Hedderik van Rijn, John Andrerson | |
| Break | 10:00 | ||
| Problem Solving | 10:20 | Learning real-time over-the-shoulder instructions in a dynamic task | Wai-Tat Fu, Daniel Bothell, Scott Douglass, Craig Haimson, Myeong-Ho Sohn, John Anderson |
| 10:40 | A Computational Analysis Model for Complex Open-ended Analogical Retrieval | Junya Morita, Kazuhisa Miwa | |
| 11:00 | A computational account of latency impairments in problem solving by Parkinson's patients | Patrick Simen, Thad Polk, Rick Lewis, Eric Freedman | |
| Business Meeting | 11:20 | ||
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Abstract
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Title
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Authors
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| 1 | A Model of Single-page Web Search: The Effect of Interdependence on Link Assessment | Duncan Brumby |
| 2 | An Analysis of Two (or Three) Models of Visual Attention Allocation | Michael Fleetwood |
| 3 | Learning and Strategy Selection in Probabilistic Environments | Wolfgang Gaissmaier |
| 4 | Emergence of Bayesian Structure from Recurrent Networks | Sébastien Hélie |
| 5 | Methodology for Comparing Agent-based Models of Land-use Decisions | Tei Laine |
| 6 | Generalization and Discrimination in a Semantic Network Trained with Semi-Supervised Learning | Rebecca Robare |
| 7 | World Models, Action Selection, Embodied Concept Formation, and Conditioning | Terrence Stewart |
| 8 | Student Modeling for Collaborative Medical Problem-Based Learning | Siriwan Suebnukarn |
| 9 | Modeling the ability to reason about oneself and others in educational contexts | Karin Zondervan, Rineke Verbrugge, Niels Taatgen |